Mattagami First Nation joined the ranks of Aboriginal groups the nation over on Thursday when it participated in the Idle No More movement by holding a protest just north of the community’s reserve on Highway 144.

Mattagami First Nation is planning to hold a similar demonstration this coming weekend as the local First Nation plans to hold a rally near the Esso Station within the city’s west end.

It is scheduled to take place this Saturday from noon to 4 p.m.

The protestors are calling on all people of Canada to join in a “revolution which honours and fulfils Indigenous sovereignty that protects the land and water.”

The cry of outrage from the First Nations population comes after the passage of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s second budgetary omnibus bill, specifically with section C-45, which would see land and water rights stripped.

The most notable of these protests in Ontario to date occurred in Sarnia where members of the Aamjiwnaang First Nation, blockaded a CN spur line for 13 days